Bolsonaro has been arrested after authorities found he posed a definite escape threat while under house arrest.
The one-time leader was sentenced of orchestrating a armed takeover in the ninth month and handed more than over two decades in jail, but he remained under house arrest pending appeals.
High Court Judge Justice Moraes said the decision to arrest the elderly politician was a safety action after "new facts" emerged.
This encompassed trying to remove his ankle monitor and a summons to a supporters' gathering that could "allow for a potential flight.
Court Filing Details Flight Fears
In a paperwork permitting the arrest, the judge said information from the centre monitoring Bolsonaro's house arrest suggested the one-time head of state's plan to remove the surveillance device to ensure success in his flight.
This, it said, would be "facilitated by the chaos caused by the gathering called by his son.
His offspring, Flávio, who serves as a congressional representative, called for a assembly of his backers near Bolsonaro's home to take place on Saturday night.
The senator wrote on online platforms on the previous day: Will you battle for your homeland, or watch it all from your mobile device there on your settee? I invite you to battle with us."
He said the vigil would be so supporters could seek divine intervention for his health and for the return of democracy in our nation."
Foreign Shelter Risks
Part of the judge's determination was the chance of his move to foreign missions near the residence, considering that the probes revealed a background of planning to ask for protection through a diplomatic representation", a declaration said.
The legal document highlights that the American diplomatic mission in the national capital, Brazil's capital, is positioned around 13km from Bolsonaro's home.
International Reactions
Bolsonaro's legal woes have generated frustration from fellow conservative nationalist US President Trump, leading him to implement a half-rate duty on imports of Brazilian goods.
The former president is being kept in a federal law enforcement building in the capital and will experience a custody hearing on the next day.
Recent Legal Requests
It was only on the previous day that the ex-leader's attorneys asked the Supreme Court to allow him to fulfill his full incarceration period under home confinement, with digital surveillance.
They also requested that Bolsonaro be permitted to leave his home for medical care, saying he demanded regular treatment for lung conditions and other illnesses.
Details of Guilty Verdict
He was found guilty of heading a scheme aimed at retaining his authority after he was defeated in the 2022 election to his ideological adversary, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva.
Supreme Court justices said that he knew of a plot which included plans to murder his opponent and his running partner, Alckmin, and to imprison and murder Justice Moraes - the top judicial official who has been presiding over the former president's case.
The scheme was thwarted because it didn't receive the endorsement of the military leaders. His successor was inaugurated without problem on the first day of 2023.
But a week later, on January 8th, numerous Bolsonaro supporters invaded and destroyed public facilities in the national capital, the capital city.
The security forces took action and around 1,500 people were detained.
The justices found that the protesters had been provoked by him whose scheme, they said, was for the national armed forces to intervene, reestablish control and bring him back to power.
At the time, his attorneys called the decades-long sentence unreasonably severe".
He was also barred from running for public office until twenty-sixty - a decade minus two years after the conclusion of his imprisonment.
The one-time head of state called the trial a "witch hunt and said it was intended to stop him competing in the 2026 national vote.
